Operation Pegasus Causes Problems

The Head of Television Programmes invokes a nation of disappointed children in this memo complaining about the serious and, to the viewers, unexplained over-running of the UK's first live aerial broadcast, as covered by 'Newsreel'.

The reaction to the over-running of 'Operation Pegasus' may well have been exacerbated by the view held by many in the BBC that the programme had not been an unqualified success. This was because of the very windy conditions, which made the whole operation slower and much more difficult, and the fact that parts of the transmission failed when the pilot carried out 'steeply banked turns'.